They already charge every Registrar once a year for all billable transactions (add, renew or transfer domain - 20c each), these might soon include domain tasting, i.e. deleting domain within "Add grace period".
Domain tasting will not go away, because it is cheaper to
taste domain by paying 20c instead of full registration price.
ICANN will earn 20c for each domain tasted, which translates
to tens of millions of dollars of additional profit per year
for ICANN.
that a man which is excellent in one field of activity (chess) could be absolutely and utterly miserable in another one
(politics). At this point Kasparov has well below 1 percent support among Russian population, and this is not likely to change.
Frankly speaking, his political position is so marginal I would not believe any sane people would support him.
As of Litvinenko, he never was a 'high-profile', he never was a 'spy' (he was in organized crime department),
he never knew any government secrets (unfortunately for him, because he had nothing to sell) and he was thrown
out of FSB (successor to KGB) for beating suspects' heads with Yellow Pages books. Then he turned out to be a dissident.
BTW, it is a wee bit premature to declare his death as an assassination, not to say to accuse someone in this
assassination.
> which was the reason why the soviets took the danish navy serious durring the cold war
This is an obvious urban legend, because Soviets just did not consider Danish navy separately
from US and NATO forces. Most of the small countries are tend to exaggerate their importance for
world powers. Anyway, all Danish naval based were supposed to be destroyed by nukes with the rest
of the world in the gypothetical conflict. The main task of Soviet Navy was not to fight Danish
submarines in Baltic or North Seas, but to provide operations of boomers with SLBMs in Barentz Sea
and Atlantic.
As an employee of one small.com Registrar I would rather support WADND in this case. ICANN and
Verisign are a bunch of greedy lazy bastards. ICANN earns 25 cents per year per every.com/.net domain name (so called ICANN tax - basically for nothing, they only perform Registrar accreditations),
and Verisign takes 6 bucks for maintaining.com/.net Registry. But there other ICANN taxes, which
are not so widely visible to general public. ICANN charges all.com/.net Registrars $20k a year just
for the right to register.com/.net domains (plus 25 cents tax for each domain), last year that
annual ICANN tax was 5 times lower (around $4k). So basically small guys on the domain market are
now in much more difficult conditions, because profit margins have significantly decreased in
last few years, some Registrars have a profit margin of 25 cents per domain name. That is you have
to register or renew at least 80,000 domains a year just to pay all ICANN taxes, that is not counting
labour costs etc. Basically as a result of ICANN actions domain registration business has been closed for small guys, it is now not possible to enter this business without shitloads of money. It was deliberate
action of ICANN, they even planned in their annual budget a descrease of Registrar number from
500 to around 200.
No we don't have an An-124, it's the largest plane currently flying, built by the russians partly as an expression of national pride, and it cost shitloads. Only flies a few times a year btw, not a lot of people need that much lifting power.
They were built to carry miscellaneous military and civilian equipment like a couple
of tanks or Buran buster. They fly every day, and carry anything from Sony Playstations to US military shipments to Afganistan.
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has 10 An-124's in active use.
New An-124 would not cost more than 80 millions of dollars - this
can be hardly described as "shitloads" for the plane of its size.
You might try to tell american military or u.s. companies like General Electric and Lockheed-Martin
that they do not need this kind of lifting power, though they are not likely to listen to your advice.
So please stop being an idiot, and do not bullshit me and everybody on matters you have no
slightest idea about.
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Yes that is right. One domain could be tasted multiple times by one or more registrars.
They already charge every Registrar once a year for all billable transactions (add, renew or transfer domain - 20c each), these might soon include domain tasting, i.e. deleting domain within "Add grace period".
Domain tasting will not go away, because it is cheaper to taste domain by paying 20c instead of full registration price. ICANN will earn 20c for each domain tasted, which translates to tens of millions of dollars of additional profit per year for ICANN.
Frankly speaking, his political position is so marginal I would not believe any sane people would support him.
As of Litvinenko, he never was a 'high-profile', he never was a 'spy' (he was in organized crime department), he never knew any government secrets (unfortunately for him, because he had nothing to sell) and he was thrown out of FSB (successor to KGB) for beating suspects' heads with Yellow Pages books. Then he turned out to be a dissident.
BTW, it is a wee bit premature to declare his death as an assassination, not to say to accuse someone in this assassination.
> which was the reason why the soviets took the danish navy serious durring the cold war This is an obvious urban legend, because Soviets just did not consider Danish navy separately from US and NATO forces. Most of the small countries are tend to exaggerate their importance for world powers. Anyway, all Danish naval based were supposed to be destroyed by nukes with the rest of the world in the gypothetical conflict. The main task of Soviet Navy was not to fight Danish submarines in Baltic or North Seas, but to provide operations of boomers with SLBMs in Barentz Sea and Atlantic.
Are you living in a cave? Russian stock market almost doubled last year. It was the most profitable stock market in the world in 2005.
As an employee of one small .com Registrar I would rather support WADND in this case. ICANN and
Verisign are a bunch of greedy lazy bastards. ICANN earns 25 cents per year per every .com/.net domain name (so called ICANN tax - basically for nothing, they only perform Registrar accreditations),
and Verisign takes 6 bucks for maintaining .com/.net Registry. But there other ICANN taxes, which
are not so widely visible to general public. ICANN charges all .com/.net Registrars $20k a year just
for the right to register .com/.net domains (plus 25 cents tax for each domain), last year that
annual ICANN tax was 5 times lower (around $4k). So basically small guys on the domain market are
now in much more difficult conditions, because profit margins have significantly decreased in
last few years, some Registrars have a profit margin of 25 cents per domain name. That is you have
to register or renew at least 80,000 domains a year just to pay all ICANN taxes, that is not counting
labour costs etc. Basically as a result of ICANN actions domain registration business has been closed for small guys, it is now not possible to enter this business without shitloads of money. It was deliberate
action of ICANN, they even planned in their annual budget a descrease of Registrar number from
500 to around 200.
No we don't have an An-124, it's the largest plane currently flying, built by the russians partly as an expression of national pride, and it cost shitloads. Only flies a few times a year btw, not a lot of people need that much lifting power.
They were built to carry miscellaneous military and civilian equipment like a couple of tanks or Buran buster. They fly every day, and carry anything from Sony Playstations to US military shipments to Afganistan. Volga-Dnepr Airlines has 10 An-124's in active use. New An-124 would not cost more than 80 millions of dollars - this can be hardly described as "shitloads" for the plane of its size. You might try to tell american military or u.s. companies like General Electric and Lockheed-Martin that they do not need this kind of lifting power, though they are not likely to listen to your advice.
So please stop being an idiot, and do not bullshit me and everybody on matters you have no slightest idea about.